Jewish Hospital, Warsaw

The hospital also included an administration building, a synagogue, a pre-burial house, kitchens, laundries, freezers, a boiler room, a coach house, stables, a disinfection chamber, a food warehouse, a convalescent home and other smaller buildings.

On June 25, 1883, Dr. Zygmunt Kramsztyk published in the "Kurier Warszawski" an article entitled "The New Hospital", in which he presented the construction assumptions and postulates in this matter.

In April 1887 the Hospital Building Committee was established, headed by Ludwik Natanson and then Michał Berson after his death.

In July 1887, the committee held its inaugural meeting and since then funds have been raised for the construction of the hospital.

The committee decided on June 26, 1890, that the hospital would be built on the land of the estates of Wielka Wola and Czyste, repurchased from the owners: Biernacki, Rodkiewicz and Pieńkowski.

In December 1898, in order to speed up the process of obtaining funds for the finishing and furnishing of other buildings, the board of the Jewish community granted a loan in bonds in the amount of 400,000 roubles.

Speeches were delivered by Michał Berson, President of the Building Committee, and Dr. Zygmunt Kramsztyk, the hospital's chief physician.

In 1909–1911, a new two-store pavilion was built for the needs of the internal and neurological wards, followed by the opening of a physiotherapy workshop.

At the beginning of 1922, the first issue of the "Clinical Quarterly of The Jewish Hospital" was published, which contained materials from scientific meetings.

Before the outbreak of World War II, the hospital already had 1500 beds and employed 147 doctors, 119 nurses and 6 pharmacists.

By order of the German occupation authorities, the hospital, which was under the responsibility of the city magistrate, was transferred to the management of the Jewish community and thus was intended exclusively for Jews.

In the late autumn of 1939, due to worsening sanitary conditions, a typhus epidemic broke out and the hospital was completely isolated for six weeks.

In February 1941, by the decision of the German occupation authorities, the Jewish Hospital was moved to its new headquarters in the Warsaw Ghetto and operated there until 1943.